山水図|River Landscape in Evening
16th century
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Image: 25 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (64.8 × 31.8 cm) Overall with mounting: 59 1/2 × 18 1/4 in. (151.1 × 46.4 cm) Overall with knobs: 59 1/2. × 20 1/8 in. × 1 in. (diam. of knobs) (151.1 × 51.1 × 2.5 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
Japan · Muromachi period (1392–1573) or Momoyama period (1573–1615)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Charles Stewart Smith Collection, Gift of Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith, Charles Stewart Smith Jr., and Howard Caswell Smith, in memory of Charles Stewart Smith, 1914
Accession Number
14.76.13
Tags
Art Historical Context
Kano Motonobu's *River Landscape in Evening*山水図), a masterful 16th-century hanging scroll painted in ink on paper, the serene beauty of a twilight riverscape. As a leading figure in the Kano school—one of Japan's most influential painting lineages—Motonobu blended Chinese Song dynasty inspirations with native Japanese sensibilities during the Muromachi period (1392–1573). This era, marked by Zen Buddhism's rise and the shogunate's cultural patronage, favored monochromatic ink landscapes that evoked nature's impermanence and harmony. The artwork's delicate brushwork masterfully renders mist-sh...